Zubin Minoo Bharucha (born 8 January 1970) is an Indian former first-class

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er who played for

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and

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. He worked as the team director of

Rajasthan Royals The Rajasthan Royals, also known as RR, are a professional Twenty20 cricket team based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, that competes in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Founded in 2008 as one of the initial eight franchises, the team is owned by Manoj ...

from 2008 to 2015, and is working as director of cricket of the team since 2018.

Life and career

A right-handed

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, Bharucha first played as an overseas player for the Reigate Priory Cricket Club in England as an 18-year-old and represented the club for several years. He appeared in 17 first-class and 11 List A matches, playing for Bombay, and scored a hundred on his first-class debut in November 1992. He was part of the Bombay team in its

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victory. In the 1994–95 Irani Cup match for Bombay against Rest of India, Bharucha scored his career-best unbeaten 164 and helped his team win the trophy. He also represented India Youth XI and Surrey. Bharucha runs the World Cricket Academy in

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where many Test cricketers have trained. In 2008, he became the team director of the

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franchise

and continued in that position until the team's suspension in 2015. He also worked as the team's head coach in 2012. During his stint with the Royals, he made technical analysis of players based on video footage collected from around the world, and scouted for talented Indian cricketers. He helped

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on his footwork in the late-2000s and worked with the

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on technical aspects of the game.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bharucha, Zubin 1970 births Living people Indian cricketers Mumbai cricketers Surrey cricketers Indian expatriate cricketers in England Indian cricket coaches Cricketers from Mumbai Parsi people from Mumbai Parsi people